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… LA,” she says, reflecting on how far Occidental College seemed from home, both geographically and culturally. But when she was recruited to play basketball, Alyanna decided to visit campus. “Even though my first visit was during COVID and nobody was here, I fell in love! I knew …
… Hi! My name is Aung Myat Htet. I am a first-year international … year at Oxy, I have encountered several challenges that I was able to successfully overcome. These challenges related … academic performance. One of the experiences in college I was hoping to pursue was working a part-time job, and I …
… Parks as the Madeline McKinnie Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy—Oxy has a record 142 tenured and tenure-track … in English literature at Princeton in May; his dissertation was titled Framing Fanaticism: Religion, Violence, and the … to continue the conversations and research that I had begun as a fellow at Wesleyan in the Center for Humanities. …
… worker in the Community and Public Relations office, I remember how quickly she found solutions and how life was joyful and easy with her around. I remember her … classes, and the work we were there to do. Secretly I always wished she could have been my mother. Yet she did …
… at Occidental 40 years ago, Susan Howell Mallory '76 M'78 came to know Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier, who established the … of events, mostly Oxy-related," Mallory recalls. "She was quite a lady." After eight years as a trustee herself, …
… ...."American Studies prepared me for law school and a career in captial defense and … "Studying America, Studying the World: My Experience as an American Studies Major at Oxy" … American Studies Events …
… Namandjé Bumpus ’03 was 7 years old when, in a pique of curiosity unsurprising to her parents, she scribbled a letter to the American Chemical Society. The always inquisitive youngster … the institution,” she wrote. “Every time I have received a scientific award or grant since my graduate studies, I have …
… 35 “I don’t really like rocks—not for their own sake, anyway. But Scott’s unique mentorship helped me appreciate the bigger picture that … time at Oxy because they made me feel like a better world was not just possible but already real and tangible.” Meghan … to an unprecedented 11 retiring faculty, we called on some of their brightest students to share their memories, …
… figuratively. My wife, Michele, our two cats, Leland and Oswald, and I moved into the Annenberg President’s House over … are thrilled to be living on campus, and we eagerly look forward to hosting the Occidental community at the Annenberg … of the year to date have been many and required some extremely difficult, time-sensitive decisions to ensure …
… From the Chorus I never attended Occidental, but performed (usually in the chorus) in several productions in Oxy's Summer Theater program. My first year participating was in 1978, when I was all of 20. I was in the chorus of The Robber Bridegroom … A voice from the chorus remembers Omar Paxson '48, and a disenchanted Tiger laments …